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Success! A working 5.1 audio solution for my PC to home theater. Once that was finished, I ensured that my receiver was configured for the correct encoder (Dolby in this case) by cycling through the sound menu until I found what I was looking for.įinally, I opened the Creative Console and ran a test cycle. Not the ideal, but a step in the right direction, so I opened the Creative Control Panel and under the Encoder tab I selected Dolby which split the 2 channel into a 5.1 channel signal. I tested the signal from my computer and I was successfully getting 2 channel audio through the speakers. In this case DVD/VCR was what the device was set to, but it turned out that that was the only selection that wasn't getting a feed. Under the "Setting" menu button I selected digital output 1, which was the location of the plug, and cycled through the options until I got a signal.
When I turned on an audio source (a movie in Windows Media Player) the computer detected output, but no sound was coming from the speakers.Īt this point I started fiddling with the receiver. Next I selected my SPDIF controller from my available playback devices and made it my default device.
Please feel free to edit them for improvement or to address issued with other hardware specs.įirst I started from scratch and reconnected the optical cable on both ends and ensured they were in the correct ports. I'm going to post the steps I took to eventually get the results I was looking for. I'm the friend Lazy DBA is referring to and I managed to solve this dilemma of mine finally. No recommendation is too basic at this point.
He's also running Windows 7 Home Premium, so a Remote Desktop Connection is also out of the cards. Additionally, I'm in Boston, MA and my friend is in Austin, TX.
Ideally we could edit this so others can find this troubleshooting guide useful in the future.Īll device drivers on the Windows 7 PC are assumed to be installed correctly, and are the latest version provided by the manufacturer (i.e. The goal is to determine a list of troubleshooting steps to figure out what is necessary to get sound working through devices connected to the JVC receiver via optical/SPDIF. This is probably the last "configuration" item outstanding. Granted, I have gone through several troubleshooting sessions to get other things working (primary display, disabling Hybrid Sleep) on Windows 7 after installation. Having upgraded to Windows 7, things are no longer working. Audio was being sent to the receiver just fine before the OS was nuked and paved for Windows 7 – the working configuration from Vista is unknown and lost to the ages.Īfter "some futzing around and a miracle", audio was playing from the PC to the receiver just fine through Windows Vista. Other devices connected to the receiver (not through optical) play fine. Audio does not play at all to the speakers connected through the receiver.Audio plays fine through the PC speakers via an analog connection.It also has an optical cable (presumably SPDIF) connecting it to the optical input of a JVC RX-D206 receiver (JVC support site down, will provide link later). The Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium has some analog connection to some speakers, presumably some Creative Labs MegaWorks or GigaWorks surround speakers. The other DVI output is connected to a DVI-input of some LCD display.
This is connected to an HDMI input of a Panasonic PT-AE2000U projector. The 8800GT has one DVI output connected to a DVI-to-HDMI adapter.